Tuesday Seminar - The Concept of Identity with Lucy Lafarge, MD
The Concept of Identity — Readings
Lucy LaFarge
8/1/23: Erikson, E. (1950). Childhood and Society. New York: Norton. pp.23-46; 235-246; 403-424.
8/8/23: Erikson, E. (1959/1980) Identity and the Life Cycle. New York:Norton. pp.108-175.
8/15/22: Schafer, R. (1973). Concepts of self and Identity and the experience of separation-individuation in adolescence. Psychoanal. Q. 42:42-59.
8/22/23: Chodorow, N. J. (2010) Beyond the dyad: individual psychology, social world. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 58:207-230.
8/29/23: Gonzalez, F.J. (2020). First world problems and gated communities of the mind: an ethics of place in psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Q. 89:741-770.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to describe Erikson’s view of identity.
Participants will be able to apply Erikson’s model to clinical work.
Participants will be able to critique Erikson’s model from the perspective of psychoanalysis.
Participants will be able to critique psychoanalysis from the perspective of the social.
Participants will be able to apply the concept of the social unconscious in clinical work.
Dr. Lucy B. LaFarge is a psychiatrist in New York, New York and is affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell. She received her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
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